Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.news-service.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: which JDK to use? Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:59:24 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: 4IuMaYl5j9Y5F74I990LJw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110830 Thunderbird/6.0.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:7613 On 9/5/2011 1:16 PM, Lew wrote: > > To Qu0ll's point that Oracle's JDK 7 is OpenJDK, that's 99% true. > There are pieces you can purchase that supplement the open-source part, > such as the soft real-time version, that are not in OpenJDK. I was unable to > confirm that the current Oracle release is precisely the same as OpenJDK, > but it's clear that the differences, if any, are in the corners. > on related point: http://lxnews.org/2011/09/05/oracle-stops-shipping-java/ "September 5, 2011" "Oracle has decided to stop shipping its proprietary Java packages for Linux, telling everyone to move to OpenJDK instead." " Oracle has retired the “Operating System Distributor License for Java” (DLJ) that was created by Sun in 2006" "the need for Oracle’s Java implementation has steadily decreased since the release of the OpenJDK 6, adding that the OpenJDK is proven and mature and is the chosen package of most Linux distributors." --Nasser